A press release for the website SafeManuals.com has just caught my eye.
It aims to provide that gap in information we are all familiar with when a manual for a piece of kit goes missing. TV, DVD player, washing machine? It is supposed to have them covered.
And of course, we can't all RTFM when the manual may not be present in the first place: "The website is visited mostly by users who did not keep their user manual for their products, or never owned it, i.e. when buying from auction sites or pre-owned," states the release.
It aims to provide that gap in information we are all familiar with when a manual for a piece of kit goes missing. TV, DVD player, washing machine? It is supposed to have them covered.
And of course, we can't all RTFM when the manual may not be present in the first place: "The website is visited mostly by users who did not keep their user manual for their products, or never owned it, i.e. when buying from auction sites or pre-owned," states the release.
Covering 3627 brands, it has quick search facilities for the top 300
brands - from 3Com to Zyxel - and then for searching the related top 300
products for that supplier. I found my Nokia 6300 user guide, for example, in two
clicks. Looks good...
The homepage declares:
"Where is my user guide?
So much time wasted looking all over the place for the instruction manual to tune the tv-set, find the printer cartridge replacement how-to, the meaning of the blinking led on the dashboard. How many user manuals available only on CD-ROM, on the Internet ?
On this site you will easily be able to find the required instruction guides and user manuals that you need."
It also encourages people to upload their own user guides.
Check it out at http://safemanuals.com/
The homepage declares:
"Where is my user guide?
So much time wasted looking all over the place for the instruction manual to tune the tv-set, find the printer cartridge replacement how-to, the meaning of the blinking led on the dashboard. How many user manuals available only on CD-ROM, on the Internet ?
On this site you will easily be able to find the required instruction guides and user manuals that you need."
It also encourages people to upload their own user guides.
Check it out at http://safemanuals.com/
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